Nari Ward is a contemporary Jamaican-born American artist who uses sculpture, installation, and painting to engage with the cultural sites his art occupies. Following in the Dadaist tradition of Marcel Duchamp, Ward activates found objects as vehicles for cultural commentary. This tactic is exhibited in the artist’s iconic installation Amazing Grace (1993), which was originally designed for an abandoned fire station in Harlem. Consisting of found baby strollers and used firehoses, the discarded objects address issues of poverty and consumer culture. “I don’t want to sit in judgment,” Ward responded when asked about the relationship of his art to the political climate. “But I do want to create work that has a drama, that talks about failure ...